Lightbending was discovered by Avatar Shiron when a Firebender let his Yang overpower his Yin, then attempted to Generate Lightning which resulted in a white light, or so the Avatar story goes. But in the UK, light-bending researchers found a super sparkle was achieved by coaxing microscopic surfaces of cellulose, from wood pulp in this […]
By Joel Stone, ConVergInce Advisers and Executive VP of Lee Enterprises Consulting & Thalia Aoki, Sales Engineer at ZwitterCo, Inc. Special to The Digest “Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.” This idiomatic expression characterizes the idea of tossing out the good along with the bad. Bioprocessing of agricultural or fermentation product businesses could […]
It was a hot week for sustainable aviation news with Velocys entering a 15-year offtake deal for 575 million blended gallons of net zero SAF to be produced at their planned Bayou Fuels biorefinery project in Mississippi for Southwest Airlines and a 10-year offtake agreement with International Consolidated Airlines Group (which includes British Airways, Aer […]
News from the Windy City came in that Låkril Technologies, a newly launched start-up company has already licensed catalyst technology from the University of Minnesota to convert corn-derived lactic acid to bio-based acrylics that provide at least 35% CO2 reduction from today’s petroleum-derived acrylics. Does Låkril sound familiar? How about BioAstra Technologies? Catalyxx? Sylvatex? Danimer […]
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT) was founded in late 2007 to address the need to reduce flaring worldwide by creating small […]
Wine is too good to waste, but what about all that grape waste from wine-making? Well, one luxury streetwear fashion brand is replacing animal leather shoes with a leather alternative made from grape waste. And a startup in the Netherlands is working on 3D printable wood without cutting down any trees. Speaking of the Netherlands, […]
By Sergey Nuzhdin, Kristen Davis, Meredith Brooks, Ann Carpenter, Pierre Wensel, Cindy Wilcox, all from the Cluster for Sustainable Seaweed Solutions (CS3) Special to The Digest A rising human population coupled with the damaging effects of climate change pose a paramount challenge to producing more resources in an increasingly variable climate. As the agricultural “Green […]
It’s a simple idea, using renewable electricity to induce carbon dioxide and hydrogen to form a hydrocarbon. Hydrocarbons, you know, the stuff we burn as liquid fuel and from which we make plastics, fabrics, flavors, fragrances, resins, coatings, etcetera. If you are what you wear, as the New York Times once famously opined, you are […]
A $600 million investment in construction of a renewable fuels facility. A project that is expected to produce more than 120 million gallons of renewable fuels annually. That alone is enough to catch some attention, but who exactly is Evolve and how is HOBO Renewable Diesel getting in with them for this project? Who will […]
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Pennsylvania-based PQ has a history dating nearing 200 years with our first products being soap and candles, among the basic […]
